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Maybe, but the scale here is gigantic, and it will take a lot of work for humans to make an impact. Consider that a single cumulus cloud can weigh 2 million pounds(that is, 900 cubic meters of liquid water).

If you were going to be worried about things like this, wind farms will probably pose a bigger problem than water collection, unless we start building large cities in the desert relying only on air moisture collection.



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